Loom harness-frame.



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LOOM HARNESS FRAME.

APrLIoATIoN FILED 13:10.23. 1910.

' ,HENRY- cTE fo .Meli

were@ ;zen of the .-Uni-tedl States, and resident of West Warren,; county ot `lvoi'cester, State of i ltassachusetts, have; .invented an Improvement inLoom*HarnessFFrames, of which the following-1descriptiom ein connection with the accompanyingedravving,- is a specification;like-characters on the drawing rep- This'inventionhasfor its Object the production w off a 'n'o'vel: `'lo in harness-frame so constructed:andfariiange' that one or more lieddlesjof arsetnmaybe removed from or inserted 'inpljac the frame With ease arid rapidity.' i 5 Inharness-ifrfrrtes s 'ordinarily constructed these flieddl supported therein by one" 'o riii'o1fe transverse ibars attached to the 'nprifghtfv side fb'er'sf'of lthe frame, and inthe 'casebf e o D twine'heddles they are supportedat :p'iaiidbttoniby such transverse'bars," passedft'lirough loops `or eyes in ,the heddls: ","aiious reasons it is often desirable jy t-o n's'ert?""oi'iefor` more heddles vin the'fla i oken or injured ones, position of tvvo or more tv arp has been drawn in land, dth 'ie is in the loom.

s, ave been detachably dat fault is not near ie set it is necessary support a relatively es to reach the faulty oneyall'fL-hensuc ieddles must be replaced when the `faultl o o rected.

By my present' invention the heddle sup- -port@aube-Separated or opened temporarily atfanyy -onefofla :number of points between the sides .ot theharne sframe, for the insertion orl vremoall f1 :01' more heddles, and;l thereafter lthe'support 1s returnedltofznormal onditionI quickly and easily.l v 1 spec-ilication and' p a rticularly o DRAPER COMPANY, A CORPORATION or MAINE.

1this is of little real' rrnsposition ot' one or EST WARRENMAssAoHUsETTs, ASSIGNOR, BY MEsNE ASSIGN- LOOM HARNESS-FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented NOV, 21, 1911, Application led December 23, 1910. Serial No. 598,909. i

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ln the practical embodiment of myinvention herein illustrated the harness-tra1ne is composed of upright side bars l, 1 rigidly connected at top and bottom by ciggss-bars Q, 3, Fig. 1, in any suitable manner, the said cross-bars being shown as providedwvith intermediate hooks 4, 5 for coperating with the upper and lovver heddleksupportsbetween the side bars, and I=have shown vvire With a Warp-eye 6 and elongated loops 7, 8 at the upper and lower ends thereof, -respectively. .Herein the heddle supports are mounted at their ends in slots, as 9, in the side bars l and said supports'are passed loosely through the-loop-like openings 7 and S of the heddles. Hereineach heddle support is composed ot a series of detachably connected and laterally separable mem'- bers vor sections, normally' held lixedly in the harness-frame and locked from lateral movement. presenting a rigid and apparently continuous bar.

One of the intermediate sections is shown separately in Fig. 5, and consists of an elongated, flattened tubular body 10 preferably made of thin sheet metal bentto shape, with its longitudinal edges abutting along the line l1, and having ixedly attached to itavlat metal tongue 1:2 projecting beyond one end Vof the body, the tongue extending int-o the body, as shown b v dotted lines 13. The base of tlie'tongue Within the body is secured thereto,` *any heddles of a common torni, each provided,

reception? When a series of these sections are assemclosely against each other, so that apractibled, Witlithe tongue of each fitting snugly into the socket of the next adjacent section, the bodies of the several sections will be firmly and rigidly connected in alinement as a whole, the ends of adjacent bodies abuttlngaas -shown in Fig. 1, and at the right 1n Fig. 2, the depth of a socket being always sutlicient for the tongue of the next section to slide thereinto far enough to permlt` the adjacent ends of the bodies to abut. The external shape and size of a section body 1sl made to correspond to and enter easily the opening in theeheddle, and said connected sections are herein shown as supported'in upright position transversely of the harness-frame, the number and length vso of the 'sections varying according to circumstances. A.

In order to maintain the sectional heddle support locked in operative position on the harness-frame I mount end members in the slots 9 of the side bars 1, one of the end members having a tongue and the opposite member a tongue-receiving socket.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 the left hand end member comprises a flattened tubular body 16 having xed'therein a pro'ecting tongue 17 and a locking eye 18 1s tormed in the outer end of said member. To stiften and strengthen this member I prefer to continue the base of the tongue therein to its outer end, the eye 18 registering with a hole in the tongue base.

' In Fig. 2 the end member is shown as retracted to withdraw its tongue 17 from the socket .15 of the next section, thereby separating or opening the heddle support atthat point to admit the insertion orremoval of a heddle or heddles, as will be apparent, the upper end of a heddle being shown by dotted lines in the opening so made.

To close the heddle support and restore it to normal condition the end member is pushed inward in the slot 9 until the tongue 17 enters the socket of the next section, and a locking finger 19 pivoted at 20 in the side bar 1 is swung upward and its free end inserted in the eye 18, as shown in Figs. 1 and it.

The' V right hand end member consists of a flattened Jtubular body 21, Fig. 1, having a tongue-receiving socket 22 at its inner end, said member being held in locked position in its side bar 1 by a locking finger 19, as previously described.

As the upper and lower heddle supports are of like construction no detailed description of the lower support is necessary.

The distance between the inner ends of the bodies of a pair of end members is such that when they are locked in placev they will abut closely against the adjacent ends of the bodies 10 of the intermediate sections, and

-est that at which the heddle fault occurs,

the heddles adjacent the point of separation being pushed right and left onto the bodies of the two separated sections. Any desired change in a heddle, or heddles, can .now be made by means of the temporary break or opening in the support, after which the opening is closed by pushing together and re-connecting the separated sections and re locking the end-members of the support.'

The lookin iingers 19 are conveniently made of sti wire having suiicient resiliency to beA sprung into andl o ut of locking engagement, so that the shaking and jarring of the harness-framein the-operation of the loom cannot effect unlocking.

llhile I have shown two sectional heddle supports and a Well known forni of wire heddle it will be manifest ,that my invention is not thereby restrictd,'either to the form of heddle or to the use of upper and lower supports, for the support can be used with equal efficiency in connection with any ferm oi heddle provided with an eye or opening for the reception ofy the support.

.If desired the body 21 of the right hand end or locking member of the support can be stiii'ened or strengthened by securing therein a stiiiening plate 23, or in anyr other suitable manner, so long as a socket is p rovided at the inner end of such member.

I have shown herein one practical embodiment of my invention, but various changes or modifications in details of construction and arrangement may be made by those skilled in thc art without departing from the spiritand scope of my invention as set forth in the annexed claims.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 1. In a loom harness-frame, a. heddle support comprising a series of sections detachably connected with each other, and means to maintain said sections normally and positively connected and in alinement.

2. "In a. loom harness-frame, heddles having loop-like openings, a heddle support comprising a series of laterally separable sections detachably connected with each other and adapted to extend through the openings in the heddlcs, and means nor- Inally acting to prevent lateral movement of the sections and to maintain them connected.

3. In a loom harness-frame, a heddle support comprising a series of tubular-'memv the ends of the bodies of the latter abut bers each having a projecting tongue atene end and a socket at the other end to receive the tongue of the next adjacent member, and means to normally maintain said tubular members connected in alinement With their adjacent ends closely butted together.

4. In a loom harnessframe, a heddle support comprising a series of tubular members, means to detachably connect adjacent members one with the other with their ends abutting, and means to lock positively said connected members from separation and position them in the harness-frame.

5. In a loom harness-frame, a heddle support comprising a rseries of separable sections each consisting of a body soclreted at one end and having a projecting connecting tongue at its otherend, the tongue of one section slidably entering the socket in the lbody of the nent section, end members mounted on the frame and coperating with the endmost sections of the series and laterally movable relatively thereto, and means to lock said end members Jfrom lateral movement on the frame and relatively to said sections.

6. In a loom harness-frame, oppositely slotted side bars, a transverse heddle support comprising a series of detachably connected and laterally separable sections adapted to extend through openings in the heddles .and support the same, end members laterally slidable in the slots of the side bars and adapted to coperate With the endmost sections of the series and normally vmaintain them connected together, and

means to lock said end members in operative position to prevent separation of the intermediate sections.

7 In a loom harl'iess-frame, a heddle support comprising a series of sections each comprising a socketed body having an attaching projection to slidably enter the socketed body of the next adjacent section, and means normallyv acting to maintain said sections connected with the several body por tions thereof presenting a substantially con'- tinuous surface for the support ot' the heddles.

8. In a loom harness-frame, a multi-part heddle support, means to detachably connect the parts of the support one with the other, and positive means coperating with said support to prevent disconnection of its component parts under normal conditions.

9., In a loom harness-frame, side bars, a transverse, sectional heddle-support sustained by said side bars and comprising a series of flattened, tubular members each having a tongue extended from one end to slidably enter the open end of the adjacent member, and means carried by the side bars to maintain said members connected with each other and with the side bars under normal conditions.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

HENRY ooT.

Witnesses MABEL E. BARRY, HUBERT M. CONEY, 

